Interesting Facts about Famous Scientists

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1. Cai Lun, Chinese inventor of paper, used what material in his paper making process? balsa rice bamboo silk

2. What scientist discovered that ether had anesthetic properties? Bacon Paracelsus Morton Jackson

3. Which African American inventor deserves credit for his work with Edison on many of the latter's inventions? Banneker Latimer Carver Matzeliger

4. One was the joint inventor of cordite (with Dewar), another discovered adrenaline, the last demonstrated that the quintic equation did not have an algebraic solution....what was their common last name? Alvarez Andre Adams Abel

5. Everyone associates the quote 'I think, therefore I am' with Descartes...but someone said it more than 1200 years earlier...who was it? St. Augustine Bede Boethius Marcus Aurelius